Questions tagged [pest-control]
Hacks related to the control and elimination of pests.
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Scaring Pigeons - by remote control
I have a problem with pigeons waking me in the early hours of the morning and I want to be able to scare them away from the comfort of my own bed with a press of a button.
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How to prevent a robin from banging into a window?
There is a robin that sits on the fence and then flies into the window repeatedly. This happens every day at dawn and dusk, and sometimes in the afternoon. I am pretty sure it sees itself in the ...
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How can I prevent spiders from setting up home in my car's wing mirrors?
I have spiders that like to spin large messy webs on my car's wing mirrors. They hide inside the body of the mirrors and only come out to collect their prey or spin their webs at night.
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Cheap way to make screens for doors/windows?
I live in New Zealand and buying pre-made screens for windows and doors are expensive. Looking for a cheaper alternative way to make them myself to help my pest control.
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How to take out hidden mice/rat
In the morning my brother in law spotted mice/rat but not sure what it is. Upon moving sofa it has made holes in it. I have 2 problems now
I got 5 days old son which we can't leave alone
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Get rid of drain flies (sink flies, filter flies, sewage flies)
Since I moved into my house I started noticing drain flies coming into my bathroom and kitchen. Sometimes there are a lot of them, I once counted more than fifty. In my bathroom there is a septic put ...
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How can I repel pigeons from roosting on my apartment balcony?
Ahhhh, It's spring.
I'm on the top (6th) floor of an apartment building that has an open balcony with a beautiful view… that I recently share with some pigeons.
I would much rather the pigeons ...
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Dealing with dust mites [closed]
I know a lot of people have dust mite allergy, so drop your tips here if you have any handy hints.
Good vacuum cleaners ?
Things that poison them ?
Bedding covers ?
tnx
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How to get rid of Bedbugs?
Is there any natural or other way of getting rid of bedbugs? Is there any kind of chemical with another purpose that also works to kick out the bedbugs that is available in the market?
I know that ...
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How to get rid of a mouse from home
Please suggest possible remedies for mouse entering the house.
Does ultrasonic repellent work? Please share your experience.
Do home remedies work?
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How to Repel Otters from my Boathouse
Otters are cute. What's not cute is the mess they leave when the come into my boathouse and use the deck (and anything laying on it) as a latrine. It smells like fish and urine. The otters must go.
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How to move to a new place, without contaminating it with bedbugs?
I have to live in a dormitory, and I found out, that there are bedbugs here. I reported it to the administration, but they do not care about my problem. They know, that we have no other place to live.
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How can I prevent a wasp entering the house?
I leave very high up and yet there are many wasps entering. How do I prevent that?
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How to find vanished medium-sized spider?
So, we had unwanted visit of a spider yesterday. It seems to be a non-adult version of a Tegenaria domestica or similar (trigger warning: pictures in the article). The size was about 3-4cm in diameter,...
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How to find a mosquito in a room that's really good at hiding [duplicate]
I've been trying to kill a certain mosquito in my room for a week now. I always fail to find it. I used every method listed on this and some other websites. Nothing helped.
Now my plan is the ...
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Get rid of house fly problem?
I have a problem with flies suddenly. I have been living in my house for almost 20 years and never had a problem with flies. How can I find out where they are coming from and eliminate the source?
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How can I get rid of cats?
My previous neighbor started to feed any and every cat that went close to his property, he is no longer around but he didn't take the cats with him.
Currently I have like 4 or 5 cats daily messing ...
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How to trap houseflies? (what's the best bait?)
I made a trap by cutting the top off a plastic bottle, inverting it, and put a rotting banana in it. However, not a single fly has gone into the trap for 2 days (and there are flies everywhere).
I'm ...
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Cockroaches in a speaker cabinet
I bought a pair of speakers on Craigslist that turned out to have little roaches living inside. Fortunately, I noticed them before any escaped into my apartment, so I took the speakers back to the ...
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How to get rid of ants
Recently my house has had an ant problem. I'm plugged up the holes I think they're coming in from but I still see them wandering around the house and getting into my food.
How do I get rid of them ...
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How to get rid of pantry moths?
For the past few months I've had pantry moths in my flat. At first very few but they grew in number. I tried some traps and they catch quite a few but it is not enough. I threw away all my infected ...
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How to be rid of mosquito larvae in bird bath [closed]
I have a birdbath and in the summer it accommodates many mosquitos' eggs. It's concrete, so I would rather not pour it out each time. I also don't want to poison the water as to not harm the birds. I ...
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Killing flies with your bare hands [duplicate]
Are there any seasoned members that can recommend approaches to successfully kill flies with only your bare hands. I am interested with solutions that can help me deal with pesky flies while they're ...
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deter badgers from garden
I have holes in and under my garden fences and whilst I haven't observed it, I believe they've been made by a badger using mine and my neighbours garden as a run. How can I persuade Mr. Badger to take ...
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How to completely be rid of bed bugs
Living in Florida, bed bugs are too regular an occurrence. A visit to a bed bug-friendly environment - such as a hotel, dorm room - or from someone who has them in their home can easily translate to ...
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How can I prevent slugs on my glass sliding doors
Since a few weeks, I got a small slug infestation. Since I have a large, glass sliding door at the back of my house which the snails seem to like, it gets covered in slugtrails and slugexcriments.
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How can I kill spiders while suffering from arachnophobia?
So i have arachnophobia, so bad that my body will lock up and i black out if there is a spider on me.
Now i do live with my parents and it occurred to be today when i freaked out when i saw a ...
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How do I repel bugs from face
I have been doing some weeding recently, because it's summer now, and I really hate it when I sit down to dig something up and every flying insect seems to try to fly into my face. Is there some kind ...
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How to find a mosquito at night? [duplicate]
Recently I'm suffering from a problem:
In the middle of the night, a mosquito just keep bzzzing in my ears, but when I move, it stops, but after a minute, it bzzzing again.
I've tried using mosquito ...
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Remove ants from honey
I have this bottle of very good honey. I was not able to use more than a few teaspoonfuls in the past few days. Today when I opened the bottle I see small ants have entered the bottle and floating in ...
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How to avoid pigeons eating my dog's food and pooping my car / front yard?
I keep my dog's food and water on my backyard, pigeons eat all his food and drink his water every time they get the chance. My dog stays on the front yard most of the time and whenever he sees pigeons,...
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How can I remove ants from black ingredients?
Many times it happens when something black has been spoiled by ants like black tea leaves and it's nearly impossible to separate them. By some suggestions I even tried to spread tea leaves in a sheet ...
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Controlling mold mites
I found a LOT of small white specks moving around on my monitor. I found out they were mold mites, which eat mold and are found near moisture. They are relatives of the dust mite, a common allergen. ...
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How to remove ants from seeds like falooda?
Is there any way to remove tiny red ants from falooda seeds, or urad dal.
I have spread the seeds on a paper, but then also they are not going away. How do I get rid of them?
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How to find a spider when there is a spider web?
I have an aircraft model in my bedroom and saw a spider web attached to the wing today. I want to find the spider. How would I best do this?
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Best (law-abiding) ways to inconvenience cold callers?
Like many people, I don't wish to receive unsolicited phone calls/texts/emails from people who are trying to sell me something or scam me.
I am aware of passive ways of dealing with the problem but I ...
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How to reduce creepy crawly insects in the house?
I don't mind insects but having a spider crawl over my hand while I'm trying to sleep is just ridiculous. I lived in a shared house which is a bit old. I noticed insects including large spiders and ...
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Humane destruction of slugs [closed]
Applying salt to slugs dissolves them, and is cheaper than pellets. Is this humane, or are there preferable techniques?
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How to keep mosquitoes from biting through fabric?
What can I do to keep mosquitoes from biting me through fabric?
I have two scenarios in mind.
Use case 1: I have applied insect repellant to all areas of exposed skin, but mosquitoes keep biting me ...
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How to permanently banish cockroaches from the house without using any pesticide & not affecting my dog? [duplicate]
These days cockroaches have plundered my house! Cockroaches always hailed in my house but they hardly bothered; two or three could be found under the sink or at the attic. But they have multiplied at ...
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How to remove critters from car?
What could be a good way to remove critters from a car (cockroaches, ants, etc.)? I want to avoid using insecticides, since this will leave an unpleasant odor on the car.
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How to store bananas and keep fruit flies away?
I leave bananas out on the counter, I find them surrounded by fruit flies. I can't put them in the fridge since that causes them to ripen quickly. What other options do I have?
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How do I find and kill a single mosquito in the middle of the night?
Many times a single mosquito will buzz in my ear at night (and bite me). I know if I kill it there won't be any others, but finding one is difficult.
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How can I get a mouse out the house without causing it any harm?
We recently had a tiny, and utterly adorable, little mouse in our 2nd story apartment.
We eventually managed to corner it and get it into a box before releasing it back into the field, but it was hard ...
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How can I relieve the itchiness from a mosquito bite?
I suffer quite regularly from mosquitoes bites in my home because I live in an area with many places well suited for them to breed; Stagnant bodies of water.
Are there any quick and easy methods to ...
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How to get rid of mosquitoes without electricity?
In the summer we used to start fans or cooler while sleeping, but sometimes due to some technical issues at night we have no electricity, so our fans and cooler stop working at that time.
I am ...
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Lighting for easily spotting mosquitoes?
I can effectively zap mosquitoes with a hand racket zapper once I see them. A LED flashlight in a dark room seems to work best for spotting the mosquitoes while they fly. Can someone recommend better ...
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How to deal with cockroach at home? [duplicate]
Recently, in the past few months, I found and killed some (~4) cockroaches at home, I'm worried that there is actually more cockroaches, I've tried putting Roach Baits in the kitchen, bathroom etc. ...
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How can I remove ants from my laptop keyboard?
There are ants in my laptop keyboard again. It's happened before and ended up killing my productivity occasionally as the little critters suddenly show up from within the gaps of the keyboard. I had ...
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Friendly way to get rid of screeching birds
So I live in an apartment building attic and there's a bird nest right outside, on the roof. They probably just hatched eggs because they screech and scream like they're dying all from 05:00 till 08:...
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